Posted on 04/19/2005 4:51:31 AM PDT by Flavius
NEW YORK, April 18, 2005 -- A secret FBI report, obtained by ABC News, identifies 22 domestic terror organizations as the current subjects of 338 active FBI field investigations.
The Aryan Nations, and other white supremacist groups, are cited in the report for hate crimes, fire bombings, threats via mail, as well as robberies and murders. The National Alliance, one of the largest neo-Nazi organizations in the world, is subject to 51 FBI investigations alone, according to the report.
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In fact there are "ticking time bombs," said Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, "who have the capacity, skill and hatred to carry out acts worse than what Timothy McVeigh carried out 10 years ago."
Levin, and other terrorism experts, say that the Internet has become the principal recruitment tool, attracting the loners and the disturbed who boast of finding viable U.S. targets.
"We are likely to see more terrorist attacks by lone wolves, or small cells," Levin said, "They're in their bedroom accessing bomb-making information on the Net, and accessing hateful rhetoric which empowers them."
James P. Wickstrom, who calls himself the world chaplain of the Aryan Nation, uses "Death to the Jew" as a mantra of sorts. He also regularly calls for the deaths of government leaders, including the president.
"There is none of them in this Cabinet that damnably deserves to breathe the air in this country today," Wickstrom said in a speech given at the Aryan Nations World Congress in Pennsylvania in July 2002.
Federal officials say his calls to action are not unlike those of the leader of al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden. Wickstrom has declared himself an enemy of the United States government.
"I tell you we do not need this Congress and legislative body," he said in the same speech. "We don't need these vile bastards telling us what to do on our property and with our water and with our children. We don't need to tell them we have to wear a seat belt. We don't need have to be told anything."
"A secret FBI report, obtained by ABC News"
??!?
Oh common dont spoil the threat with logic...
Beat the rush. Call Buckhead now!
Will the secret report contain a ratio of minorities already killed by these feared domestic terror groups as opposed to those killed by, lets say, the crips and the bloods?
You taking that personally?
nuh just tin foil thing, i think they are still mad at the Rather thing
Oddly enough ELF the most active domestic terrorist group is not mentioned.
I guess they feel that if there somehow were, they could make much more progress on their anti-American, anti-Christian/faith/fundamental moral agenda against the 2nd Amendment, against expressions of faith in public, for the homosexual agenda, for euthanasia, and the list goes on and on. That's what this is really all about IMHO.
It is truly pathetic and sickening.
A "secret" report obtained by ABC News indeed.
I noticed the same thing last night on the ABC evening news.
Actively violent terrorist groups on the left don't rate a mention. Wacko nutcases on the "so-called right" get coverage even though they're mostly talk.
You noticed that too?
Hey, if terrorism is where the funding is, you bet I'm going to discover the group I'm investigating is a 'terrorist' group....
Go work for the southern poverty law center..you will roll in the cash.
Must make it easy for the real Nazi in this 52 member organiztaion to play "spot the narc."
Secret. Right. Self-important poseurs. ABC probably already had their own list. Anything organized by angry white supremists is of major concern to the olde media.
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